JHoagland opened this issue on Apr 01, 2006 ยท 46 posts
ockham posted Sat, 01 April 2006 at 11:35 AM
In the long term, pranks are much less nasty nowadays than, say, two generations ago. The point of having prank days (like Purim, Halloween, 4/1) is to channel meanness into approved forms, and to keep folks on their guard. Deception is all around, and we need to stretch our bullshit-detector glands now and then so we won't fall for it quite so easily on non-prank days.